Patents by Inventor Ghislain Adolphe Leon Thise

Ghislain Adolphe Leon Thise has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • PNEUMATIC TIRE
    Publication number: 20100059156
    Abstract: A pneumatic tire having a tire tread, the tread comprising grooves therein, the grooves forming tread elements, the tread having a radially outer surface and a non-skid tread depth as measured from the radially outer surface of the tread, and a radially innermost surface of the grooves, and one or more sunken grooves located radially inward and below the surface of the unworn tread, the tread comprised of a base tread compound, a radially outer compound, and a radially inner compound, wherein the intersection of the radially outer compound and the radially inner compound is wavy.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 11, 2009
    Publication date: March 11, 2010
    Inventors: Anne-France Gabrielle Jeanne-Marie Cambron, Michel Jean Yves Windeshausen, Jean Luc Dheur, Gia Van Nguyen, Alain Emile Francois Roesgen, Jean-Marc Lacaze, Peter Phelps Roch, Andrew Frederick Weimer, Ghislain Adolphe Leon Thise
  • Pneumatic tire having a rubber component containing a rubber gel and syndiotatic 1,2-polybutadiene
    Patent number: 6807994
    Abstract: A pneumatic tire having a rubber component where the rubber in said component is comprised of (A) from 10 to 75 phr of a rubber gel selected from the group consisting of polybutadiene gel, styrene butadiene gel, acrylonitrile-butadiene gel, chloroprene gel, natural rubber gel, and mixtures thereof; (B) from 1 to 25 phr of syndiotactic 1,2-polybutadiene; and (C) a rubber containing olefinic unsaturation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2002
    Date of Patent: October 26, 2004
    Assignee: The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company
    Inventors: Stephan Franz Westermann, Georges Marcel Victor Thielen, Ghislain Adolphe Leon Thise
  • Pneumatic tire having a rubber component containing a rubber gel and syndiotatic 1,2-polybutadiene
    Publication number: 20020170642
    Abstract: A pneumatic tire having a rubber component where the rubber in said component is comprised of
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 8, 2002
    Publication date: November 21, 2002
    Inventors: Stephan Franz Westermann, Georges Marcel Victor Thielen, Ghislain Adolphe Leon Thise
  • Preparation of surface modified silica
    Patent number: 6465670
    Abstract: A process for the modification of the surface of a silica with a silane compound comprising mixing an aqueous suspension of precipitated silica particulates with a silane compound which is dissolved in an organic solvent, in the presence of a phase transfer catalyst.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 2001
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2002
    Assignee: The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company
    Inventors: Ghislain Adolphe Leon Thise, Giorgio Agostini
  • Preparation of reinforced rubber and use in tires
    Patent number: 6384127
    Abstract: The invention relates to the preparation of a rubber composition containing silica-based filler reinforcement through the utilization of a organosilane disulfide compound mixed with a rubber composition in at least one preparatory, non-productive, mixing stage followed by utilization of an organosilane polysulfide compound mixed with the rubber composition in a subsequent, productive, mixing stage. The invention further relates to the resulting rubber composition and use thereof in tires.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2001
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2002
    Assignee: The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company
    Inventors: Thierry Florent Edmé Materne, Giorgio Agostini, Ghislain Adolphe Léon Thise
  • Preparation of surface modified silica
    Publication number: 20020022085
    Abstract: A process for the modification of the surface of a silica with a silane compound comprising mixing an aqueous suspension of precipitated silica particulates with a silane compound which is dissolved in an organic solvent, in the presence of a phase transfer catalyst.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 10, 2001
    Publication date: February 21, 2002
    Inventors: Ghislain Adolphe Leon Thise, Giorgio Agostini
  • Preparation of reinforced rubber and use in tires
    Publication number: 20010034392
    Abstract: The invention relates to the preparation of a rubber composition containing silica-based filler reinforcement through the utilization of a organosilane disulfide compound mixed with a rubber composition in at least one preparatory, non-productive, mixing stage followed by utilization of an organosilane polysulfide compound mixed with the rubber composition in a subsequent, productive, mixing stage. The invention further relates to the resulting rubber composition and use thereof in tires.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 11, 2001
    Publication date: October 25, 2001
    Applicant: The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company
    Inventors: Thierry Florent Edme` Materne, Giorgio Agostini, Ghislain Adolphe Leon Thise
  • Preparation of reinforced rubber and use in tires
    Patent number: 6306949
    Abstract: The invention relates to the preparation of a rubber composition containing silica-based filler reinforcement through the utilization of a organosilane disulfide compound mixed with a rubber composition in at least one preparatory, non-productive, mixing stage followed by utilization of an organosilane polysulfide compound mixed with the rubber composition in a subsequent, productive, mixing stage. The invention further relates to the resulting rubber composition and use thereof in tires.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 1998
    Date of Patent: October 23, 2001
    Assignee: The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company
    Inventors: Thierry Florent Edmé Materne, Giorgio Agostini, Ghislain Adolphe Léon Thise
  • Tire having silica reinforced rubber tread with carbon black reinforced rubber envelope
    Patent number: 6070630
    Abstract: The invention relates to a rubber tire composed of carbon black reinforced rubber carcass and having a rubber tread which is composed of a unitary, co-extrusion of tread cap, base and miniwings and, wherein a portion of the miniwings extend as a thin layer over a portion of the tread cap's outer surface to create a path of reduced electrical resistivity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 1996
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2000
    Assignee: The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company
    Inventors: Manuela Pompei, Ghislain Adolphe Leon Thise, Jean Bergh, Georges Clement
  • Silica reinforced rubber composition and tire with tread
    Patent number: 5914364
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a silica reinforced rubber composition and to pneumatic tires having treads comprised of the silica reinforced rubber compositions.The silica reinforced rubber composition comprises at least one elastomer, silica, a silica coupler, a hydrophobating agent and, optionally, carbon black.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 1997
    Date of Patent: June 22, 1999
    Assignee: The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company
    Inventors: Martin Paul Cohen, Cheryl Ann Losey, Raymond Benjamin Roennau, Shingo Futamura, Thierry Florent Edme Materne, James Oral Hunt, Ghislain Adolphe Leon Thise
  • Tire having silica reinforced tread
    Patent number: 5681874
    Abstract: The invention relates to a tire with a tread. The tread is composed of three basic elastomers, namely, medium cis 1,4-polybutadiene rubber, isoprene/butadiene copolymer and natural cis 1,4-polyisoprene rubber and which is reinforced with either carbon black or a combination of carbon black and silica reinforcing fillers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 1996
    Date of Patent: October 28, 1997
    Assignee: The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company
    Inventors: Danielle Lucas, Ghislain Adolphe Leon Thise